Method of fabricating cosmetic holders



Aug. 8, 1939. E. NoYAcK 4 METHOD OF FABRICATING COSMETIC HOLDERS Filed May 8, 1956 IllV/q V/lll Patented Aug. 8, 1939 l UNITED STATES TENT OFFECE METHOD OF FABRICATING COSMETIC HOLDERS Edward Noyack, Seymour, Conn., assignor to The Risdon Manufacturing Company, a co1'- poration of Connecticut Application May 8, 1936, Serial No. 78,569 l Claim. (Cl. 113-116) The invention relates to a method of fabricating vances or is otherwise brought into register with cosmetic or like holders and more especially to a curling punch l0, which on the next stroke the method of fabricating lipstick carriers or of the press advances through the transverse wall elevators thereof, the purpose being to produce representing the cup bottom into the channel and the elevator of improved or satisfactory form and shears a strip out of the cup wall beginning at 5 at the lowest possible cost of manufacture. The its said transverse or bottom wall and at the same invention consists in the method as hereinbelow time curls the strip over on itself for about 360, explained in connection with the drawing which as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, wherein successive illustrates the preferred form. positions of the tool in the same stroke are shown. lo Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective View on an This curled strip forms the thumb piece 5 and l0 enlarged scale of the cosmetic holder with cover inasmuch as the punch l and die 8 are merely withdrawn and the lipstick raised. tools tted to existing chucks in the press, it is Figure 2 is a vertical section through the closed clear that as above stated, the rate of producholder. tion has not been alfected. l5 Figures 3 and 4 are vertical sections illustrating At the same time the elevator cup thus made 15 the method of forming the lipstick elevator, and has the special advantage over usual cups, in

Figure 5 is a side elevation on a smaller scale that the open end or rim of the cup is continuof the closed holder, parts of the cover being ously circular without interruption, which is an broken away. aid in assembling and introducing the plastic The holder as shown comprises a main case I, lipstick 6 into it, and it has the further advantage 20 a cover 2 and the elevator 3, the case being prothat the open slot I I, left by the strip, which vided with a longitudinal slot 4 and the elevator extends to the bottom of the elevator cup, provides with a projecting thumb piece 5 extending a window not concealed when the cup is set down through the slot by means of which it may be on its bottom and through which the stick and raised or lowered to advance or retract the lipthe inner surface of the bottom can be observed 25 stick proper which is marked 6. Retraction of until their contact has occurred to determine the lipstick may also be eiected by replacing the whether or not the stick has been pushed fully cover whose lower edge, slotted at l, ts over the home to the bottom of the Cup, this also being an thumb piece on the elevator. aid in the assembly and insuring uniformly cor- The elevator is a cup stamped out of a thin rect seating of the stick. 30 sheet metal and such as can be made rapidly in Thus it will be seen that by cutting the thumb automatic punch presses. The lipstick is fricpiece Strip beginning from the bOttOm Wall of tionally held in the cup, seated upon the transthe cup the thumb piece is produced by a single verse Wall at its bottom, the sole function of rectilinear stroke and the cup itself acquires which is to sustain the endwise pressure exerted special virtues. 35

on the stick when in use. I claim:

According to this invention, the thumb piece The method of fabricating an elevator cup for or projection 5 is formed on the cup in the punch a cosmetic holder comprising forcing a combined press in which it is made, which is to say, it is shearing and curling tool clear through portions formed as one of the stages of punch press op- 0f a transverse wall included in the bottom part 4o eration and at one of the existing stations in the of the cup and through the side wall of the cup; press, and therefore without any effect whatever and continuing the movement of the tool lengthon the rate of production. When the elevator wise of the cup toward, but not up t0, the 010811 blank, in the course of its progress through the end of the cup, simultaneously to cut from the punch press, has reached the shape of a cup, such sidewall a longitudinal strip, the base of which 45 cup is then moved to a station in the machine is integral with the sidewall, and curl the strip where it is placed on a cylindrical die 8 provided on itself to form a Cup-Uperating projection. with a longitudinal slot or channel 9 along one EDWARD NOYACK. side. 'Ihe die, shown in Figs. 3 and 4 then ad- 

